UL Launches Wellness Certification for Products

MARIETTA, Ga., November 2, 2017 – With the global rise of obesity, disease, inactivity, asthma and depression, the critical importance of wellness is coming into focus. At a time when people spend upwards of 90 percent of their time indoors, architects, designers, construction and business communities alike are taking a second look at the indoor environments where we live, work and play to evaluate how these environments impact human health and wellness.

In support of this wellness movement, UL Environment, a division of UL (Underwriters Laboratories Inc.), a global safety science leader, announced today it has developed the first certification program that helps demonstrate a product’s contribution to requirements in the WELL Building Standard, a program advancing health and well-being in buildings globally. UL’s Wellness Certification mark can be applied to products such as furniture, interior paints and coatings, adhesives and sealants, insulation and lighting.

“UL is leveraging our experience in evaluating product health and performance to certify products for wellness,” said Alberto Uggetti, vice president and general manager. “The UL Wellness Certification will enable architects, designers, specifiers and building owners to easily identify products that meet the concepts of the WELL Building Standard, making it simple to select products that support wellness in buildings.”

The Wellness Certification program uses data-driven assessments to evaluate products for characteristics such as product emissions, ergonomics and chemical and material transparency. UL’s Wellness Certification requires each product to meet the applicable requirements listed in the WELL Building Standard, and can evaluate additional criteria as requested. Architect and design professionals can access complete product certification details on UL’s SPOT database, which features more than 50,000 products that have been certified or validated to industry standards. Certified products will bear the UL Certification Mark and have publicly available certificates that can be used for building project documentation.

In addition to the Wellness Certification program, UL Environment is a provider of certification programs such as GREENGUARD Certification, which is recognized by the WELL Building program as compliant to Indoor Air Quality Feature 4 of the WELL Building Standard. UL’s Wellness Certification Mark can help manufacturers looking to go to the next level by demonstrating that their products can contribute to additional criteria in the WELL Building Standard.

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